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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter II (458-469).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gorgias claim rhetoric is not intended to do?
(a) Achieve advantages.
(b) Impart knowledge.
(c) Be used.
(d) Influence the masses.

2. Why does Socrates ask to be corrected and criticized?
(a) So he does not feel guilty about monopolizing the conversation.
(b) So he can condescend to them.
(c) So he may improve.
(d) So he can challenge them back.

3. Where do the men in "Gorgias" meet to discuss rhetoric?
(a) Gorgias' house.
(b) Socrates' office.
(c) Callicles' house.
(d) A theater.

4. In Socrates' philosophy, in an unjust act, who feels greater evil?
(a) The one who commits injustice.
(b) The family of the victim.
(c) The one who suffers injustice.
(d) Society as a whole.

5. What is the key way in which skills are mastered, in Gorgias' opinion?
(a) Reading.
(b) Observation.
(c) Gaining experience.
(d) Extreme practice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Socrates regard Polus' responses as useless?

2. The discussion of rhetoric raises matters of moral, philosophical, and what type of concern?

3. What comments of Polus' does Socrates discredit?

4. Gorgias believes that without mastering rhetoric, what is the occurrence of rhetoric left to?

5. What does Gorgias claim is the basis for all arts and sciences?

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